All good points.
It’s hard to believe that there was a time, in black America, in which single motherhood was not the norm. The norm was mother/father married couple families.
There was a time in black America, in which the youth gangs did not run rampant in the streets. Yes there were gangs but they were not allowed to run with wild abandon as they do now in the black community.
There was a time in big cities such as Chicago, where families were grateful to move into what became God forsaken housing projects. When those projects were new, they were a giant step up from the slum housing the people used to live in. Some old timers at Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago, told of how they used to have Little League and Girl Scout troops, and some people planted gardens outside. There wasn’t gang graffiti, broken elevators, and the constant stench or urine in the hallways, or drug dealing happening 24/7.
I’ve looked at the historical trends.
It went brutally downhill starting in the ‘60s.
You’re right.
Regarding the last sentence, did you drive a cab on Staten Island too? :)
Sadly those housing projects are now the Democratic plantations and the people who live there every bit slaves to their DC masters doling out the welfare bucks.